Most realtime features like that don't scan your entire hard drive,
which is what would take up the majority of your system resources.
Rather, they only check on specific areas of your computer as they
are potentially left open. For instance a program trying to connect
to the internet that Norton wants you to okay only triggers Norton
when it tries to connect, and only for that one connection...
something that should, on any up to date computer, be barely
noticeable. This is why I'm not entirely convinced Norton is your
problem. With regards AVG, while it's accessible with JFW, it's more
CPU intensive than Norton is while scanning. And it lacks a lot of
the features Norton provides, such as built-in spyware protection among others.
James, List Admin At 07:32 PM 7/16/2006, you wrote:
Normally I would agree, but this only started happening after I installed Norton 2006. I can't say 100% for certain then that Norton is the problem, but to me everything points strongly in that direction.
I noticed that there's an antispyware feature in the program, and what appears to be a firewall because as I have opened a couple of programs over the past couple of days a Norton dialogue has popped up wanting me to okay the program, is there any chance that something like that could be scanning in the background several times a day that could be causing the sluggishness? If anything might be doing this I would suspect the antispyware portion of the program, is there any way of disabling that and see if it makes a difference since I have SpyWareBlaster and SpyWareGuard already installed?
Also, does anybody know how good and reliable the free AVG antivirus is? I might try it and see if it's any better if they keep their updates up-to-date as often as say Norton does. Troy
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Jaws intermittently sluggish with Norton antivirus 2006
Well, if it isn't doing anything then it's hard to say Norton's the program responsible for it... a program just running and not actually being used only sits there, not really occupying much in the way of system resources.
James, List Admin At 06:59 PM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >As far as I know it's not doing anything when it occurs, I got rid of the >option that made it scan for viruses automatically. >Troy > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Troy Sullivan" <tsullivan6058@xxxxxxxxx> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:23 PM >Subject: Re: Jaws intermittently sluggish with Norton antivirus 2006 > > >Is this when norton is scanning? If so I noticed the same issue when I >use to have norton. >Troy > >On 7/16/06, Troy Burnham <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I installed Norton antivirus 2006 on my desktop computer Friday morning > > and > > I've noticed an intermittent problem like several times a day, where > > Jaws > > just gets very sluggish for a few seconds at a time, I'm not sure if it > > is > > Jaws or if it is the whole computer though. I thought I'd post here in > > case > > it is a Jaws problem and there is a solution, I'm running Jaws 7.0 with > > Windows-XP home with ServicePack 2. > > > > Incidentally I installed Norton 2006 on my laptop about 3 months ago and > > have not noticed the same behavior there. > > > > Thanks. > > Troy > > > > > > -- > > JFW related links: > > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > > Scripting mailing list: > > http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > > JFW List instructions: > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > > the > > way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact > > the > > list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >-- >JFW related links: >JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ >Scripting mailing list: >http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com >JFW List instructions: >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >the >way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the >list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >-- >JFW related links: >JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ >Scripting mailing list: >http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com >JFW List instructions: >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the >list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the >list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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